# Deaths in June 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1998.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## June 1998
### 1

* Emery Barnes, 68, American-Canadian gridiron football player and politician.
* Rex Bumgardner, 74, American gridiron football player.
* Gottfried Dienst, 78, Swiss football referee.
* Junkyard Dog, 45, American professional wrestler (NWA, WWF), traffic collision.
* Shigeo Fukushima, 55, Japanese swimmer and Olympian.
* Godfrey Grayson, 84, English film director.
* Darwin Joston, 60, American actor (Assault on Precinct 13, Eraserhead, The Fog), leukemia.
* Bishambhar Nath Pande, 91, Indian freedom fighter, social worker, and politician.
* José Pedraza, 60, Mexican race walker and Olympic medalist.
* Jerzy Łoś, 78, Polish mathematician, economist, and philosopher.

### 2

* Daniel I. Axelrod, 87, American paleoecologist, heart attack.
* Helen Carter, 70, American country music singer, heart problems.
* P. Andrew Cooray, 96, Sri Lankan politician.
* Oran Henderson, 77, United States Army officer associated with the Mỹ Lai massacre, pancreatic cancer.
* Ricky Hyslop, 83, Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger.
* Brian Johnston, 64, New Zealand field hockey player and Olympian.
* Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, 64, Mexican actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic collision.
* Dorothy Stickney, 101, American actress.

### 3

* Pat Abbruzzi, 65, American gridiron football player.
* Poul Bundgaard, 75, Danish actor and singer, kidney failure.
* Lucien Conein, 78, French-born U.S. Army officer and OSS/CIA operative, heart failure.
* Douglas Gretzler, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Joseph C. Harsch, 93, American journalist.
* Ernest Henry, 94, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
* William L. Snyder, 80, American film producer, Alzheimer's disease.

### 4

* Aarudhra, 72, Indian author, poet, publisher, and playwright.
* Fred Burchell, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Clancy Carlile, 68, American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.
* Philippe Charbonneaux, 81, French industrial designer.
* Josephine Hutchinson, 94, American actress.
* Ray Montgomery, 76, American actor.
* Miguel Montuori, 65, Italian Argentine football player.
* Shirley Povich, 92, American journalist.
* David Walsh, 52, Canadian businessman, aneurysm.

### 5

* Alfred Kazin, 83, American writer and literary critic.
* Viola Keats, 87, British actress.
* Jeanette Nolan, 86, American actress, stroke.
* Dieter Roth, 68, Swiss artist, heart attack.
* B. M. Shah, Indian theatre director and playwright.
* Prentiss Walker, 80, American politician.
* Sam Yorty, 88, American politician, stroke.

### 6

* Georg Bayerer, 83, German football player and coach.
* Louie Bickerton, 95, Australian tennis player.
* Marshall Green, 82, American diplomat.
* Jatoe Kaleo, Ghanaian ruler and politician.
* Svend S. Schultz, 84, Danish composer and conductor.
* Peter Wong, 66, Canadian politician, heart attack.

### 7

* Tom Buskey, 51, American baseball player, complications from heart attack.
* James Byrd Jr., 49, African American lynching victim, dragged.
* Jerry Capehart, 69, American songwriter and music manager.
* Wally Gold, 70, American musician and music business executive, colitis.
* Hans Ramberg, 81, Norwegian-Swedish geologist.

### 8

* Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian Army officer and dictator, poisoned.
* Harry Lookofsky, 84, American jazz violinist.
* Jackie McGlew, 69, South African cricket player.
* Michael John O'Brian, 70, Pakistan Air Force officer.
* Maria Reich, 95, German-Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist, ovarian cancer.
* Larisa Yudina, 52, Soviet and Russian journalist and newspaper editor, homicide.

### 9

* Agostino Casaroli, 83, Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See.
* Loïs Mailou Jones, 92, American artist and teacher.
* Edmund Koller, 67, West German bobsledder and Olympian.
* Barton Holland Warnock, 86, American botanist, heart attack.

### 10

* Paudge Brennan, 76, Irish politician.
* Bobby Bryant, 64, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, heart attack.
* Leroy Chollet, 74, American basketball player.
* David English, 67, British journalist and newspaper editor.
* Fernando Germani, 92, Italian organist of the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
* Steve Griffiths, 84, English footballer.
* Jim Hearn, 77, American baseball player.
* Hammond Innes, 84, English author.
* Nivedita Jain, 19, Indian beauty contestant and actress, complications after fall.
* Steve Sanders, 45, American musician, singer and songwriter, suicide by gunshot.
* John G. Smith, 73, American baseball coach, pneumonia.

### 11

* Thomas Abernethy, 95, American politician.
* Harry Anderson, 66, American baseball player.
* Catherine Cookson, 91, British author.
* Gevorg Emin, 78, Armenian poet, essayist, and translator.
* Jacques Emmanuel, 78, French actor, screenwriter and librettist.
* Alexei Eriomin, 79, Soviet and Russian realist painter.
* Jože Privšek, 61, Slovene jazz and pop musician.
* Leopoldo Salcedo, 86, Filipino film actor.
* Lucia Valentini Terrani, 51, Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano, leukemia.

### 12

* Leo Buscaglia, 74, American author and motivational speaker, heart attack.
* John Gutmann, 93, German-American photographer and painter.
* Charles "Teenie" Harris, 90, American photographer.
* Jon Leirfall, 98, Norwegian politician.
* Theresa Merritt, 75, American actress (That's My Mama, The Wiz, Billy Madison) and singer, skin cancer.
* Paul Michael Stephani, 53, American serial killer, skin cancer.
* Richard Thompson, 83, American animator.
* Lucienne Velu, 96, French athlete, basketball player and Olympian.

### 13

* Nisim Aloni, 71, Israeli playwright and translator.
* Lucio Costa, 96, Brazilian architect and urban planner.
* Gil Duthie, 86, Australian politician.
* Buddy Elrod, 79, American football player.
* Alfred Horace Gerrard, 99, English modernist sculptor.
* Birger Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.
* Fernand Sastre, 74, French football official, cancer.
* Kadamba Simmons, 24, British actress and model, strangled.
* Reg Smythe, 80, British cartoonist (Andy Capp), lung cancer.
* Yoshio Sugino, 93, Japanese martial artist and film choreographer.
* Éric Tabarly, 86, French naval officer and yachtsman, drowned.
* Henry Tatana, 53, New Zealand rugby player.

### 14

* Camillo Achilli, 76, Italian footballer.
* Hans W. Brimi, 80, Norwegian farmer and traditional folk musician.
* Ginette Mathiot, 91, French food writer.
* Oliver Treyz, 80, American network television executive.

### 15

* Hartmut Boockmann, 63, German historian.
* Suzanne Eisendieck, 91, German painter.
* Jason Holliday, 74, American hustler and nightclub performer.
* Morris Kestelman, 92, British artist.
* Thierry Salmon, 41, Belgian actor and theatre director, traffic collision.
* Anton van Wilderode, 79, Belgian priest, writer and poet.

### 16

* Roberto Cañedo, 80, Mexican actor.
* Lewis Leonard Forman, 68, British botanist.
* Jorge Toriello Garrido, 90, Guatemalan politician and President of Guatemala.
* Frank Kristufek, 82, American football player.
* Keith Newton, 56, English footballer, laryngeal cancer.
* Ricardo Núñez, 93, Spanish actor, screenwriter, producer and film director.
* Jafar Sharif-Emami, 85, Iranian politician.
* Fred Wacker, 79, American businessman and racecar driver.

### 17

* John Carberry, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Dina de Marco, 60, Mexican actress and television director, cancer.
* Aage Eriksen, 81, Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Joe Kelly, 91, Australian rules football player and coach.
* Carlos Loredo, 46, Cuban football player and Olympian.
* Gianni Lunadei, 60, Italian-Argentine actor, suicide by gunshot.
* Gyula László, 88, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and artist.
* Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, 87, Egyptian Muslim jurist.

### 18

* Otto Baum, 86, German commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
* André Chorda, 60, French football player.
* Archie Edwards, 79, American blues guitarist.
* Edward Eliscu, 96, American lyricist, playwright, producer and actor.
* Ernesto Grillo, 68, Argentine footballer, pancreatic cancer.
* Kim Jin-kyu, 76, South Korean actor, film director and producer, cancer.
* Felix Knight, 89, American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher.
* Charles Korvin, 90, Hungarian-born American actor, photographer and master chef.
* Adel Osseiran, 93, Lebanese statesman and founding father of the Lebanese Republic.
* Nazim Panipati, Pakistani film song lyricist and film script writer.
* Karl-Heinz Spikofski, 71, German football player and coach.
* Herbert J. Sweet, 78, United States Marine Sergeant Major, respiratory failure.
* Paul van Buren, 74, American theologian and author, cancer.

### 19

* John Camkin, 75, English journalist and sports commentator, cancer.
* Novice Gail Fawcett, 89, American academic administrator.
* Anatoly Kasheida, 69, Soviet and Ukrainian writer, poet, and journalist.
* Howard J. Whitmore, Jr., 93, American politician.

### 20

* Bruno Barnabe, 93, English film and stage actor.
* Ernst Brugger, 84, Swiss politician .
* Robert James Clayton, 82, English electronics engineer.
* Heinz Ditgens, 83, German football player and manager.
* Per Anders Fogelström, 80, Swedish writer.
* Bobby Gimby, 79, Canadian orchestra leader, trumpeter, and singer-songwriter.
* Kali, 79, Polish-American painter.
* Elio Ragni, 87, Italian athlete.
* Conrad Schumann, 56, East German border guard, suicide by hanging.
* George Van Peursem, American politician.

### 21

* Harry Cranbrook Allen, 81, British historian of the United States.
* Anastasio Ballestrero, 84, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Al Campanis, 81, American baseball executive, coronary artery disease.
* Emma Danieli, 61, Italian actress and television personality.
* Gerhard Gundermann, 43, German singer-songwriter and rock musician, stroke.
* François Lehideux, 94, French industrialist and member of the Vichy government.
* Peter Mander, 69, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic gold medal winner.
* Elio Morille, 70, Italian rower and Olympic champion.
* Tom Smith, 88, Scottish football player and manager.

### 22

* Phil Campbell, 81, American farmer and politician.
* Brian Davis, 63, New Zealand Anglican archbishop.
* Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, 74, Polish soldier during World War II, and later inventor and writer.
* Benny Green, 70, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist, cancer.
* Norberto Doroteo Méndez, 75, Argentine football player.

### 23

* Leonard Jones, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
* Kurt Kren, 68, Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.
* Ida Krottendorf, 71, Austrian actress, cancer.
* Bill Lee, 86, American gridiron football player.
* Paul O'Dwyer, 90, Irish-American politician and lawyer.
* Maureen O'Sullivan, 87, American actress, heart attack.

### 24

* Francine Agazarian, 85, French spy during World War II.
* Canito, 67, Spanish footballer.
* Beatrice Mandelman, 85, American abstract artist, cancer.
* Henry G. Saperstein, 80, American film producer and distributor.

### 25

* David Ayalon, 84, Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East.
* Hans Friedrich, 81, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Arthur Lewis, 81, British politician.
* Lounès Matoub, 42, Algerian Berber singer, poet and political activist, assassinated.
* Jirō Takamatsu, 62, Japanese artist.

### 26

* Pierre Angénieux, 90, French engineer and optician.
* Frank Arkell, 62, Australian politician, homicide.
* John Malcolm Brinnin, 81, Canadian-American poet and literary critic.
* Bobby Cairns, 69, Scottish football player.
* Sero Khanzadyan, 82, Armenian writer.
* Vladimir Petukhov, 48, Russian mayor of Nefteyugansk, killed.
* Luciano Pezzi, 77, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner, 72, English businessman and life peer.
* Hacı Sabancı, 63, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, lung cancer.
* Dick Schulz, 81, American basketball player.
* William R. Sears, 70, American politician.

### 27

* Pierre Boutang, 81, French philosopher, poet and translator.
* David Laitt, 67, English cricketer.
* Sumati Morarjee, 91, Indian businessman.
* Gilles Rocheleau, 62, Canadian politician.
* Homi J.H. Taleyarkhan, 86, Indian politician and Gandhian.
* Joyce Wieland, 67, Canadian experimental visual artist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Peter H. Wyden, 74, American journalist and writer.

### 28

* Jonathan Benair, 47, American actor (The Brave Little Toaster), cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack.
* Marion Eugene Carl, 82, American flying ace during World War II and record-setting test pilot, shot during robbery.
* Bill Elias, 75, American football coach.
* Božidar Ferjančić, 69, Serbian historian.
* Louis Hostin, 90, French weightlifter and Olympic champion.
* Glenn Montgomery, 31, American gridiron football player, ALS.
* Brita Collett Paus, 80, Norwegian humanitarian leader.
* Jean-Yves Raimbaud, 40, French animator and cartoonist, lung cancer.
* Jack Rowley, 79, English footballer.
* Birger Sandberg, 80, Swedish football player and manager.
* Kamala Sohonie, 85, Indian biochemist.
* Denis Williams, 75, Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist.

### 29

* Slavko Dokmanović, 48, Croatian Serbian war criminal, suicide by hanging.
* Joseph G. Galway, 75, American meteorologist.
* Jess Hahn, 76, American-French actor.
* Horst Jankowski, 62, German classical pianist, lung cancer.
* Küllo Kõiv, 25, Estonian wrestler, traffic collision.
* Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao, 86, Indian film director, cardiac arrest.
* Frank Rowlett, 90, American cryptologist.

### 30

* Galina Brezhneva, 69, Soviet and Russian socialite and daughter of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, cerebrovascular disease.
* Renato Capecchi, 74, Italian baritone, actor, and opera director.
* Giorgio Carpi, 89, Italian football player.
* George Parsons, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
* John Peter, 61, Indian field hockey player.
* Bob Pryde, 85, Scottish football player.